In the Shadow of COP30, Brazil is Stripping Rainforest of Protections

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Cleve Gonçalves da Silva rides his motorbike up a slippery dirt road, in the sustainable development settlement (PDS) Terra Nossa, in Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, November 11, 2024. Landgrabbers have encroached on the settlement, illegally cleared rainforest, established cattle ranches, and threatened Cleve and others who opposed them. © 2024 Thaís Farias for Human Rights Watch While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning hand over a large area…

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